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Abydus

Abydus · f

a town in Mysia

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What it meant

ăbȳdus — Lewis & Short

ăbȳdus and ăbȳdos, i (in MSS. also Aboedus), f. (m., *a)/budos,

Verg. G. 1, 207), =

I a town in Mysia, on the narrowest point of the Hellespont, opposite Sestos, now perh. Aidos or Avido, Mel. 1, 9, 1; Auct. Her. 4, 54, 68: ostrifer, Verg. G. 1, 207: mea, Ov. H. 18, 127; 19, 30 al.: Abydum oppidum, Plin. 5, 32, 40, § 141.—

II Hence deriv.: ăbȳdēnus, a, um, adj., belonging to Abydus: juvenis, i. e. Leander, Stat. S. 1, 2, 87; the same absol.: Abydenus, Ov. H. 18, 1.—In plur.: ăbȳdēni, the inhabitants of Abydus, Liv. 31, 16.

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